William chaeles edge



NITED STATES PATENT OEEiCEG VILLIAM CHARLES EDGE, OF NEARK, NEV JERSEY.

CHAIN.I

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,016, dated August11I 1885.

Application filed April 10, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM CHARLEs EDGE, a resident of Newark, in thecounty of Essex and State of New J ersey, have invented an Improvementin Chains, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure l is a side View of my improved chain. Fig. 2 is anenlarged face view of a blank from which a link of my chain is made.Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of said blank. Fig. 4 is a longitudinalsection of the blank alter it has been punched to produce two lipsthereon. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of said blank after the samehas been bent into shape for use in the chain. Fig. 6 is a longitudinalsection of said blank when a link in the chain, showing another suchlink drawn crosswise through it. Fig. 7 is a vertical cross-section onthe line c o, Fig. 6.

This invention relates to a new construction of chainwhich is composedof links of peculiar kind, each link having a set of lips by which it islocked in position in the chain, and by which it connects with theadjoining links, all as hereinafter more fully described.

In Fig. 2 ofthe drawings I have shown a plan view on an enlarged scale,and in Fig. 3 a sectional View, of one of the blanks from which mychain-links are made. This blank may either have the outline which isrepresented in Fig. 2,01` any othersuitable outline 5 and it may havethe raised rim which is represented in Figs. 2 and 3, and the raisedcenter there shown, or not, these being immaterial features ofthe link.The blank A here represented, after having been shaped and cut out,isnext cut so as to produce from within it two lips, a a, which arerepresented in Fig. 4, and after that the blank is bent so as to carryits ends down, as in Fig. 5. This Fig. 5 represents the lips a a asstill occupying their original position in the blank. After the blankhas thus been formed into the link, which is representedin Fig. 5, thelips aa are turned down so as to become aligned one with the other, asis clearly shown in Fig. 6, so that the two lips form a bridge acrossthe broad end of the V- shaped link. Through the opening which is formedbetween the lips a and the crown or narrow end b of this link is now'introduced transversely another such link, B, which at the time of itsintroduction has its lips a a still in the position shownin Fig. 5.After the second link,B ,has thus been hung upon the lips a of the firstlink, A, the lips a of the link B are turned down (one is shown turneddown in Fig. 7) across the lower part of the link B, which is nowadapted to have passed through it another link of the same construction,which third link will occupy a position parallel to the link A, and soforth, every other link being at right angles to the contiguous links inthe chain. Thus a chain which, when finished, will resemble that shownin Fig. l is produced entirely without soldering, yet rich inappearance.

I claiml. The chain-link A, constructed with the lips a a, whichtraverse the link at the open part thereof, as described.

2. A chain composed of links A and B, that are placed at right angles toone another, each of such links having lips c a, around which theadjoining link is placed, substantially as here- -in shown anddescribed.

VILLIAM CHARLES EDGE.

Witnesses:

HARRY M. TURK, CHARLES G. M. THOMAS.

